A Libyan protester (back-R) walks past wrecked vehicles at the ransacked headquarters of the judiciary police in Benghazi on February 25, 2011. Euphoria in Libya’s second city Benghazi gave way to growing concern that it remains vulnerable to a counter-attack by Moamer Kadhafi’s forces.
Libyans gather for the Muslim Friday prayers outside the courthouse in the eastern city of Benghazi on February 25, 2011. Perhaps 8,000 people gathered for the midday prayers with a local imam, who delivered his sermon alongside the coffins of three men killed in the violent uprising that routed Moamer Kadhafi loyalists from Benghazi.
BENGHAZI, LIBYA – FEBRUARY 25: Libyans, joined by a former Libyan army soldier, demonstrate for the removal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on February 25, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Benghazi residents mourned more victims of the violence as fighting continued around the capitol Tripoli.
Men receive medical treatment in a make-shift detention center inside a school in the eastern town of Shahat, Libya, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. The detained men claim to all be Libyans who do not have identity cards, while the officials from the town believe that there are some African mercenaries among them that do not want to give up their identity for fear of being killed. Mercenaries in the city of Benghazi are being blamed for killing scores of protesters
Libyan anti-regime protesters show machineguns and ammunition confiscated from soldiers in Benghazi on February 25, 2011. Euphoria in Libya’s second city Benghazi gave way to growing concern that it remains vulnerable to a counter-attack by Moamer Kadhafi’s forces.
BENGHAZI, LIBYA – FEBRUARY 25: A hospital worker moves a victim of the violence in a morgue on February 25, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Fighting has subsided around Benghazi in eastern Libya but continues around the capitol Tripoli still controlled by the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A Libyan protester shows a picture found in the ransacked headquarters of the judiciary police in Benghazi on February 25, 2011. Euphoria in Libya’s second city Benghazi gave way to growing concern that it remains vulnerable to a counter-attack by Moamer Kadhafi’s forces.
BENGHAZI, LIBYA – FEBRUARY 25: Libyans pray while demonstrating for the removal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on February 25, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Benghazi residents mourned more victims of the violence as fighting continued around the capitol Tripoli.
BENGHAZI, LIBYA – FEBRUARY 25: Libyans demonstrate for the removal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on February 25, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Benghazi residents mourned more victims of the violence as fighting continued around the capitol Tripoli.
Suspected African mercenaries stand in a room within a courthouse as they are held by anti-government protesters in Benghazi February 25, 2011. Libya’s rebellious city of Benghazi has filled a political void with a coalition which is cleaning up, providing food, building defences, reassuring foreign oil firms and telling Tripoli it believes in one nation. Weapons used in bloody clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces were collected and African mercenaries the coalition says the Libyan leader used to fire on protesters were in jail awaiting trial. The city paid a high price for the revolt with up to 250 dead.
Libyan anti-regime protesters show machineguns and ammunition confiscated from soldiers in Benghazi on February 25, 2011. Euphoria in Libya’s second city Benghazi gave way to growing concern that it remains vulnerable to a counter-attack by Moamer Kadhafi’s forces.
Mourners gather near the coffins of Libyans who were killed in recent clashes in Benghazi February 25, 2011. Libya’s rebel-held city of Benghazi has filled a political void with a coalition which is cleaning up, providing food, building defences, reassuring foreign oil firms and telling Tripoli it believes in one nation. Weapons used in bloody clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces were collected and African mercenaries the coalition says the Libyan leader used to fire on protesters were in jail awaiting trial. The city paid a high price for the revolt with up to 250 dead.
1000s die in Libya, reports of poison gas
Libya’s deputy ambassador to the UN says thousands of people have been killed during protests, as unconfirmed reports have come in claiming the regime has used poison gas on demonstrators.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, who has turned against the Gaddafi regime, said the death toll is expected to rise as Muammar Gaddafi continues his bloody crackdown against the opposition.
“There are already thousands of people who have been killed, we expect more. They are gathering all the bodies and they are taking them to the desert or somewhere. No one knows where are the bodies of the victims,” AFP quoted Dabbashi as saying.
His comments came ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Libya.
Dabbashi said the “psychologically unstable” Gaddafi has the choice between being killed or committing suicide. “He might seek to send some of his family members abroad but I believe he prefers to die in Libya because of his narcissistic character, he wants to act like a hero.”
Meanwhile, there are reports that forces loyal to Gaddafi’s crumbling regime have mounted attacks in towns west of Tripoli.
The regime has already lost control of Misurata and Zuara in the west. Opposition protesters are now in control of major cities in the east, including Benghazi.
According to reports, security forces loyal to Gaddafi have stormed hospitals in Tripoli and murdered protesters who were being treated.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the regime has used poison gas against demonstrators in Misarata.
The United Nations Security Council is set to meet to discuss sanctions against Gaddafi and those loyal to him at the request of the French and British missions to the UN.
The United States and Europe plan to consider the possibility of freezing the assets of Gaddafi and some of his top officials responsible for the deadly crackdown on the people.
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Tentera Gaddafi membunuh Remaja Palestin (Pelajar Universiti) Di Misurata
Gaddafi mercenaries kill Palestinian
A Palestinian student studying in Libya was shot and killed by a group of armed mercenaries in the city of Misurata, east of Tripoli, a report says.
Twenty-year-old Hassan Hatem Abu Mustafa, from Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, was a second-year engineering student at Libya’s Misurata University.
Muammar Gaddafi’s paid African mercenaries fired several live rounds at Hassan in front of his house late on Thursday, killing him on the spot, Hassan’s sister told the Ma’an News Agency from Tripoli on Friday.
She added that her brother was searching for their uncle, who went missing more than four days ago and is believed to have been kidnapped by armed militias.
She also stated that there is a dangerous level of incitement against the Palestinians in Libya and that the mercenaries of the Gaddafi regime are responsible for several attacks against the Palestinians in the country.
In an interview with Press TV on Friday, Dr. William Cook of California’s University of La Verne said that Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi is so desperate that he is now hiring mercenaries to attack his own people.
He said that Gaddafi’s hold on power is weakening and he has decided to massacre the citizens of his own country.
According to reports, over 1,000 people have been killed as Gaddafi attempts to crush the revolt. PressTV
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